The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Now the poet sends his early rhubarb poem,
marked $500 The editor returns it marked
$O.NO
THE Brooklyn Eagle has started popular
subscription for bronze statue of Henry Ward
beecher to be placed in the City Hall square.
'BRIDeET, did you get the flowers that I am
to wear tonight in my hairp s'Yes. mum,
but" "But what?" Eve mislaid the hair,
mum"
LORD TENNYsoN has written morning and
evening hymn for the boys in the Gordon Home,
Portsmouth. The boys refused to stand one at
midday.
PUCK: New Servant was two years in me
last place. mum. Mistress-O that speaks well
for you Where was it, New servant-In the
reformatory mum.
Mr.. CoNNERY. the new secretary Of legation
to Mexico, will leave for mis- post about the last
OF this month Mr. Connery will collect tue data
for history Of Mexico.
Elk GOVERNOR POLLOCK, of Pennsylvania,
used to smoke fifteen cigars day. but now he
takes only one, and gets more enjoyment out OF
it than ever he did out of fifteen.
FERDINAND WARD runs little steam print
ing press that prints cigar and tobacco labels
garded as surly, disagreeable fellow.
PHILADELPHIA Call: If you want to meet all
your friends. just undertake to run along the
street to catch train. Every man you ever saw
will be on hand to pass the time OF day.
THE JUDGE: Wife-Got dollar? Husband
Where's that last dollar gave you? Gone Il
thought told you to make it go as far as you
could" 81 did, Doesn't look like it." well,
l did; sent it to the Fiji island heather"
Mrs. MARION TODD is successful lawyer in
Albion, Mich. Her first case was for railroad
conductor against a rich corporation and she
won it. She is now prosecuting $25, 900 dam
age suit against the Central Pacific railroad
w. YATES THOMSON, proprietor of the London
| Pail Mall Gazette, and wife have sailed for
America He is prominent man in London,
| not only as journalist but also in social and
| political affairs. His wife is American and is
great beauty.
SAVANNAH News On one of the principal
streets of Thomaston, Ga, the same room is &C.
| cupied by physician and shoemaker-the ply
sicians office being in front and the shoemaker's
shop in the rear. Over the door is chalked the
| sign: eve repair both sole and body"
THE Shook family, from whom Sir Charles
Dixie has inherited fortune, originally bore the
| name of Sevenoaks. There are many people in
| England now who spell their name Sevenoaks
and pronounce it Shocks. just as lots of Ameri-
| cans write their name Taliaferro and call it Toll
| liver.
Boston Transcript: She-Where are you GO
ing, Charley9 He-Going to the theater. She
All! understand. The ballet. But why don't
you 90 to the dog show, instead? I think you
| will like it ever SO much better The dogs, you
know, have four-twice as many as the ballet
dancers.
OLIVE LOGAN is soon to go back to London to
ebo n no
quite decided to build a house and be fixed lit
| erary star at Washington. but having lived so
long abroad, London and Paris seem more home
like to her than other places, and she therefore
| returns to her best friends and more congenial
| surroundings.
A NAN has just been cremated in Buffalo who
will find it difficult to prove his exact affinity in
the next world He was born Jew and mar
ried in that faith in ST. Louis; then he went &c
Utah and became a Mormon. and married two
wives. His first wife got divorce and pretty
soon he got one from the other two and joined
Protestant church in Omaha. This didn't suit
him. and he became Spiritualist, and after this
he became an agnostic and died.
ONE of the latest autographs of Henry Ward
Beecher appears on the civil-service application
of Miss Hannah Elizabeth Fabens. of Newark
N. j., received by the Commissioners at Wash
ington last Thursday. MIR. Beecher signed the
application only short time before he was
stricken down. Miss Fabens has written to the
Commissioners, requesting the return of the ap
plication. that she may preserve it as valuable
memento. Her request will be granted
Mr.. HENDLEY, expert stenographer, ha.
especial charge of the immense mail addressed
the President of the United States. Every let
ter addressed to Mr.. Cleveland passes through
his hands. He sends those in the handwriting
| of Mrs. Cleveland, Miss Cleveland. Mrs Folsom
cousin" Ben or BEST man. Bissell direct t
the President, unopened. All others, no matter
how addressed, as private" onfdential" oil
personal" are opened, and read, and indexed
CHARLES EMERSON, nephew of Ralph Waldo
married beautiful Bohemian abroad, and prob
ably would never have returned to reside il
America if his wife had not met her husband
uncle. "For two years." she said 1--WE lives
| alone on the side of mountain in Switzerland
One day heard of famous uncle of my hus
bands and l wanted to see him We went t.
Paris where he was staying, and he was so kind
SO polite. so good wanted to 60 to his country
and we came"
AN anecdote now going the rounds in Wash
ington, is related of prominent young lady il
society, whose handsome figure, displayed II
the most decollete style, has for several seasons
past been the subject of universal comment
Recently, having determined to 60 to New Yorl
, for stay of several weeks, she summoned tn
family physician and informed him of her de
sire to be vaccinated before leaving. In re
Spouse to the natural query whether she woult
have the virus applied to her arm, she shrugged
! her pretty shoulders in horror at the bare idea
"Oh, put it-well. put it any place that will no
be seem" For an instant there was silence il
the room; then, after n careful survey from tn
crown of the shapely, blonde head to the tips o
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